A driver who parked so close to an ambulance paramedics were unable to load a sick patient on board has been slammed by angry emergency workers.

A shocked paramedic has shared pictures of the motorist's maroon Nissan, showing the car parked just inches away from the ambulance's rear ramp.

West Midlands Ambulance Service crews were dealing with an emergency in the Small Heath area of Birmingham on February 27 when they returned to find the driver had blocked them in at the back.

Shocking pictures show how close the car was parked to the ambulance (Image: West Midlands Ambulance Service)

They had parked the ambulance on double yellow lines, with its rear light flashing to indicate they were dealing with a sick patient, before the Nissan pulled up and parked directly behind it, also on the yellow lines.

Photos of the scene show the emergency vehicle positioned next to the kerb on the double yellows, with its back doors wide open and its ramp down, ready to load the sick patient on board.

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"Driver said they were allowed to park there as their relative was disabled & didn't understand what the problem was parking so close to the back of the [ambulance emoji]."

Paramedics have branded the driver as selfish (Image: West Midlands Ambulance Service)

A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "It is hugely disappointing that members of the public think it is acceptable to park so close to an ambulance, so that we are unable to load patients on to the vehicle when they need transporting to hospital.

"We would hope it would be common sense to people to avoid parking so close because it has the potential, as was the case in this situation, to delay the patient getting to hospital.

"All of our ambulances have 'keep clear' messages clearly visible on the back of them. Before deciding to park so close to our ambulances we urge people to stop and think how they would feel if it was their family member delayed getting to hospital in an emergency because someone had blocked one of our vehicles in."

The latest incident comes days after Kirsty Sharman, 26, was fined for leaving an abusive note on an ambulance which parked outside her home while on a 999 call.

Kirsty Sharman left this note, part of which cannot be published due to its language (Image: WMAS)

Staff from West Midlands Ambulance Service revealed on Twitter they had found the note and had also been subjected to verbal abuse from Kirsty Sharman while they attended a neighbour's medical emergency at around noon on Sunday, February 18 in Stoke on Trent.

The note read: "If this van is for anyone but Number 14 then you have no right to be parked here.